Dana White's Contender Series

Dana White's Contender Series, formerly named Dana White's Tuesday Night Contender Series, is an American mixed martial arts promotion. In May 2017, the UFC announced White would hold the competition weekly on UFC Fight Pass (It has since been moved to ESPN+).^[1] As with the earlier web series Looking for a Fight, the goal of the series is for White to scout talent for the UFC.^[2][3] Similar to The Ultimate Fighter none of the fighters involved will have existing UFC contracts. Licensed separately from the UFC with Dana White applying for a promoter's license, it was stated ahead of the license being approved that "this is not the UFC, this is not the UFC brand, but instead a promotion that will allow up and coming fighters the chance to showcase their talents in hopes that one day they may compete in the UFC."^[4]

The inaugural event took place on July 11, 2017. All events have been held at the UFC's home base of Las Vegas.^[5][6]

List of seasons

Name	Ref	Start date	End date	# of contracts	# of events	Venue	Location
Season 9 (77-86)	[7]	August 12, 2025	October 14, 2025		10	UFC Apex Centre	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Season 8 (67-76)	[8]	August 13, 2024	October 15, 2024	42	10
Season 7 (57-66)	[9]	August 8, 2023	October 10, 2023	46	10
Season 6 (47-56)	[10]	July 26, 2022	September 27, 2022	43	10
Season 5 (37-46)	[11]	August 31, 2021	November 2, 2021	39	10
Season 4 (27-36)	[12]	August 4, 2020	November 17, 2020	37	10
Season 3 (17-26)	[13]	June 18, 2019	August 27, 2019	30	10
Season Brazil	[14]	August 24, 2018	September 7, 2018	11	3	UFC Training Centre
Season 2 (9-16)	[15]	June 12, 2018	August 7, 2018	23	8
Season 1 (1-8)	[16]	July 11, 2017	August 29, 2017	16	8

List of contract winners

Season	Episode number
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Season 8 (2024)	*Mansur Abdul-Malik *Bruno Lopes *Jose Delgado *Lone'er Kavanagh	[17]	*Andreas Gustafsson Berg *Rizvan Kuniev *Cortavious Romious *Cody Haddon	[18]	*Andrey Pulyaev *Bogdan Grad *Marco Tulio *Malcolm Wellmaker	[19]	*Ko Seok-hyun *Djorden Ribeiro dos Santos *Austin Bashi Yuneisy Duben *Quillan Salkilld	[20]	*Navajo Stirling *Josias Musasa *Nicolle Caliari	[21]	*Elijah Smith *Tallison Teixeira *Ateba Abega Gautier *Ahmad Hassanzada	[22]	*Danylo Voievodkin *Daniel Frunza *Kevin Christian *Kevin Vallejos *Alexia Thainara	[23]	*Diyar Nurgozhay *Alberto Montes *David Martínez *Torrez Finney *Jacobe Smith	[24]	*Artem Vakhitov *Kody Steele *Mário Pinto *Islam Dulatov	[25]	*Nick Klein *Luis Gurule *Yadier del Valle *Jonathan Micallef	[26]
Season 7 (2023)	*César Almeida *Tom Nolan *Caio Machado *Payton Talbott *Kevin Borjas	[27]	*Abdul-Kerim Al-Selwady Ibo Aslan Hyder Amil *Eduarda Moura Charalampos Grigoriou	[28]	*Zachary Reese *Oban Elliott Luis Pajuelo	[29]	*Carlos Prates *Thomas Petersen *Bolaji Oki	[30]	*Brendson Ribeiro *Serhiy Sidey *Dylan Budka Jean Silva *Dione Barbosa	[31]	*James Llontop Jhonata Diniz *Steven Nguyen *Julia Polastri *Jean Matsumoto	[32]	*Shamil Gaziev *Stephanie Luciano *Kaynan Kruschewsky *Igor da Silva	[33]	*Danny Barlow *Danny Silva *Angel Pacheco *Ernesta Kareckaitė *Carli Judice *Vinicius Oliveira	[34]	*Rodolfo Bellato *Victor Hugo Silva *Magomed Gadzhiyasulov *José Daniel Medina Maurício Ruffy	[35]	*Ramon Taveras *André Lima *Connor Matthews *MarQuel Mederos *Lucas Rocha	[36]
Season 6 (2022)	*Joe Pyfer	[37]	*Chris Duncan *Vinicius Salvador *Francis Marshall Waldo Cortes-Acosta Billy Goff	[38]	*Jamal Pogues *Erik Silva *Clayton Carpenter	[39]	*Esteban Ribovics *Claudio Ribeiro *Jose Johnson *Hailey Cowan Nazim Sadykhov	[40]	*Mick Parkin *Darrius Flowers *Jesús Santos Aguilar *Cameron Saaiman *Denise Gomes	[41]	*Yusaku Kinoshita *Sedriques Dumas *Mateusz Rębecki *Viktoriya Dudakova *Blake Bilder	[42]	*Vitor Petrino *Gabriel Bonfim *Karl Williams *Ismael Bonfim	[43]	*Farid Basharat *Ikram Aliskerov *Trevor Peek *Bruna Brasil *Daniel Marcos	[44]	*Brunno Ferreira *Raul Rosas Jr. *Austen Lane *Nurullo Aliev Jafel Filho	[45]	*Bo Nickal *Sam Patterson *Jack Jenkins *Rafael Ramos Estevam *Mateus Mendonça	[46]
Season 5 (2021)	*Azamat Murzakanov *Joanderson Brito *Victor Altamirano *Carlos Candelario *AJ Fletcher	[47]	*Josh Quinlan *Chidi Njokuani *Saimon Oliveira *C.J. Vergara *Chad Anheliger	[48]	*Jailton Almeida *Albert Duraev *Łukasz Brzeski *Jack Della Maddalena *Jasmine Jasudavicius	[49]	*AJ Dobson *Michael Morales *Kleydson Rodrigues *Victor Martinez	[50]	*Ihor Potieria *Daniel Zellhuber	[51]	*Mike Malott *Carlos Hernandez *Fernie Garcia *Genaro Valdéz	[52]	*Martin Buday *Jake Hadley *Slava Borshchev	[53]	*Armen Petrosyan *Caio Borralho *Piera Rodríguez *Jonny Parsons	[54]	*Gadzhi Omargadzhiev *Cristian Quiñonez *Javid Basharat *Karine Silva *Manuel Torres	[55]	*Maheshate *Yohan Lainesse	[56]
Season 4 (2020)	*Dustin Jacoby *Uroš Medić *Jordan Leavitt	[57]	*Dustin Stoltzfus *Adrian Yañez *Cory McKenna *T.J. Laramie *Impa Kasanganay	[58]	*Louis Cosce *Cheyanne Vlismas *Orion Cosce *Josh Parisian	[59]	*Jamie Pickett *Rafael Alves *Jeff Molina *Collin Huckbody	[60]	*Jimmy Flick *Ronnie Lawrence *William Knight	[61]	*Phil Hawes *Drako Rodriguez *Tafon Nchukwi *Aliaskhab Khizriev	[62]	*Jordan Williams *Collin Anglin *Danyelle Wolf	[63]	*Carlos Ulberg *Ignacio Bahamondes *Luis Saldaña *Jared Vanderaa	[64]	*Natan Levy *Nikolas Motta *Luana Pinheiro	[65]	*JP Buys *Gloria de Paula *Tucker Lutz *Victoria Leonardo	[66]
Season 3 (2019)	*Punahele Soriano *Yorgan de Castro	[67]	*Miles Johns *Miguel Baeza	[68]	*Joe Solecki *Antonio Trócoli *Hunter Azure *Maki Pitolo *Jonathan Pearce	[69]	*Antônio Arroyo *Ode' Osbourne *Don'Tale Mayes *Brendan Allen	[70]	*Sean Woodson *Jamahal Hill *Billy Quarantillo	[71]	*Aleksa Camur *Aalon Cruz *Tracy Cortez *Rodrigo Nascimento	[72]	*Omar Morales *Herbert Burns *André Muniz	[73]	*Brok Weaver *Sarah Alpar Tony Gravely	[74]	*Philip Rowe	[75]	*Duško Todorović *Peter Barrett *T.J. Brown	[76]
Season Brazil (2018)	*Rogério Bontorin *Mayra Bueno Silva *Sarah Frota *Augusto Sakai	[77]	*Taila Santos *Johnny Walker *Marina Rodriguez	[78]	*Raulian Paiva *Vinicius Moreira *Luana Carolina *Thiago Moisés	[79]
Season 2 (2018)	*Alonzo Menifield *Greg Hardy	[80]	*Matt Sayles *Anthony Hernandez *Ryan Spann Dwight Grant	[81]	*Antonina Shevchenko *Te'Jovan Edwards	[82]	*Bevon Lewis *Jordan Espinosa	[83]	*Maycee Barber *Domingo Pilarte *Edmen Shahbazyan	[84]	*Jimmy Crute *Sodiq Yusuff *Jeff Hughes	[85]	*Roosevelt Roberts *Ian Heinisch *Jordan Griffin *Juan Adams	[86]	*Devonte Smith *Kennedy Nzechukwu *Bobby Moffett	[87]
Season 1 (2017)	*Kurt Holobaugh *Boston Salmon	[88]	*Sean O'Malley	[89]	*Karl Roberson *Geoff Neal	[90]	*Julian Marquez *Brandon Davis	[91]	*Mike Rodríguez *Alex Perez	[92]	*Charles Byrd *Grant Dawson	[93]	*Benito Lopez *Joby Sanchez	[94]	*Matt Frevola *Lauren Mueller *Allen Crowder	[95]